The Cults of the Roman Empire (Ancient World (Oxford, England).)
Contributors: Antonia Nevill (Translator)
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Limited
Published: January 1, 1997
Language: eng
Number of pages: 416
ISBN-13: 9780631200475
First sentence: THE Tyrian Melqart, who became the Hercules of the Cattle Market in the river port of Rome, perhaps made his first entry into the Urbs in the company of Phoenician traders.
Description: About the multiplicity of gods and religions that characterized the Roman world before Constantine. It was not the noble gods such as Jove, Apollo and Diana, who were crucial to the lives of the common people in the empire, bur gods of an altogether more earthly, earth level, whose rituals and observances may now seem bizarre.